I'm now in IT Purgatory as they fiddle with my system remotely. My internet is fine (as I'm using it right now on my phone), they can do remote access, but no work sites I need can be reached. So...gremlins?

Thank you to @sciam.bsky.social for letting me dig into the protein enhancement fad. 1. If you are an elite athlete, OR elderly/frail, maybe you do need extra protein. 2. That's not you. You're not an elite athlete. 3. If it is you: consider yogurt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/prot...

I drank a protein enhanced latte with protein cold foam for this article. The sacrifice was real that thing was...slimy. Weirdly slimy. 🤢

The Night Gallery offers for your approval a continuation of our "Canned Response" series.

The litterbox was both peed and pooped in as soon as it was deployed!! ✅️

Sass Panther Security Incident Report: It has been 0 Days since Clumsy Human spilled something on The Cat (coleslaw).

Ash judging our Healthy Innovations: ✅️ Home built cat stand ✅️ Garden catnip ✅️ Shrimp as a "we left the house to 'hunt' " treat ✅️ Outside harness walks ❌ Wood pellet litter ❌ Filtering water fountain ❌ Homemade Churu Let's see how a new, extra large stainless steel litterbox is received!

You have three guesses as to how I figured out cats like nutritional yeast.

He gave this garden water bucket full of leaves more sips than he gave the fancy, stainless steel, circulating, filtering water fountain (he gave that zero chances).

Logger head shrike today, hawking up a pellet! As I took vid!

Me: No, I don't need to take on anything else right now. Other Me: Googling procedure for enfleurage to try on lilacs.

If I were you, I would not tell him that he can't have catnip.

Of course the only in-focus pic of this bumblebee doesn't show if the band distal to the orange band is yellow or black, so maybe a Black-tailed Bumblebee? They have no business moving this fast being the absolute units that they are.

Sass Panther Security is securing this catnip plant.

I cared for my first Bunny for pet sitting yesterday: what a sweetie! I also found out that bunnies make grumbles of annoyance when a rambunctious kitten tries to play with them!

After a nice long outside time lounging in the sun & chewing grass, Mr. Ash came inside, waited til I was in the tub to released the most heinous Dragon Diarrhea Dump. On booty cleanup, a piece of yesterday's chewed grass had to be, um, extracted. (He's not a toxic plant chewer, thank the Owl).

I had a black cat at some point. Now I have a dust ball.

The Night Gallery offers for your approval a continuation of our "Canned Response" series.

For Earth Day, here are some of the places on this planet I go scouting for fossils in

Wheee! "Lexx" is on Tubi!

Someone is feeling extra proud of themselves after escaping my hold on the lead, chasing the Grey Fluffy Tuxedo Cat, making me run after this particular someone across the alley and into a neighbor's car port, and hauling someone's furry floofed out ass back to the yard.

This is why we don't go off trail or let dogs run off leash in areas that have a long underground mining history.

The Night Gallery offers for your approval a continuation of our "Canned Response" series.

Test piece for the dog rose portion if the Long-suffering Art Project.

I would like to add Creepshow (1982) and the location-appropriate owl vocalization (Eastern Screech Owl) heard during the "Father's Day" segment.

The Night Gallery offers for your approval this multidimensional, multimedia art installation entitled "Canned Response."

I *just* cleaned out the nest box, and already "House Hunters: Violet-green Swallow Edition" has started. They better close the deal before the Chickadees move in!

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

Sometimes we come home from a 10-hr market stretch to find said "art." Ash swears the elusive Ninja Cats did it.

Podiatry Verbal Typo of the Day: Patient prescribed course of Fraggle (I meant Flagyl).

If the SciArt Feed 🐡 gets 50 more Likes, it will have more than NBAsky 🏀. Make sure if you've pinned the SciArt feed, you Like it also! 🧡

I may have to add Dog Friend as well as Cat Whisperer to my CV. I encountered an off-leash French Bulldog on a trail, potatoing their way up a hill ahead of their people. Doggo spudded their way over to me for pets, then sat next to me and leaned against my leg to wait for their humans.

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster. They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters. So why so colorful?

There was going to be more posting of Creepy Woodsy Sounds That Aren't Ghosts/Demons/Bigfoot, but we had a farmer's market this weekend where I did eight pretty intense card readings, then two pet sittings yesterday, and now my immune system is hanging on by a thread.

Watching Star Trek "The Ultimate Computer," where AI is installed on the Enterprise for a trial run to completely run the ship: it all works smoothly & there's no need for the captain & crew for future episodes. HAHA just kidding. Of course it's a disaster and fails miserably. It's no different now.

Reposting my #StimSongs as I've been logging 8-12 km every day this week with a dog walking client and hitting the music hard.

Friends, you're going to lie to me and tell me that a critter stole this full poo bag and hid it in the tree trunk for Critter Reasons, because I can't even right now. (I collected said bag and disposed of it properly.)

Barn owls. Nothing quite like having a demon living in the tree next door... youtu.be/MTXIfS8kyKM

As the weather warms and we take to the outside more, I think it's time for my annual thread of Creepy Woodsy Sounds That Aren't Ghosts/Demons/Bigfoot! The Canada Lynx in the quoted post might make me jump for a sec!

As both a woods witch (we can measure the time I've spent working in remote wilds localities in decades now) and paranormal TV aficionado, lynx vocalizations totally sound like a human trying to mimic a corvid, and could be a touch unsettling. youtu.be/9m8pt6-xuw8?...

My condolences to the Western conifer seed bug I saw last night: it is evident from your crumpled form on the kitchen floor this morning and the playful scampering of Mr. Man, you did not survive the brutal Pat-Pat-Pat of the Mighty Murder Mittens of Sass Panther Security.

GREAT HORNED OWL! GREAT HORNED OWL! www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/wildflo...

BARRED OWLS! BARRED OWLS! www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/barred-...

He stole my spot.

I may be a touch obsessed with this song. youtu.be/l4DBvgB61hA?...

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

Bullfrog of the day! Tuesday, 10 Mar 2026

Throwing it out to the Universe: When I win a bananas-amount of money, I'm forming the Bag o' Money Grant. Recipients get a literal bag of money, complete with dollar sign on the bag. No strings attached. Use it for Whatever. Science, art, breathing, food, take your pick.

I recently turned forty-five, which means it's time for my colon cancer screening. Because I have no family history of colon cancer and am of average risk, my doctor prescribed the Cologuard test (which I was amused to see is made in Madison, WI; go Badgers!). It was super easy to do.

#NovaScotia Have you seen a wasp nest like this? These researchers want to study it Dalhousie University student will analyze nests to determine if heavy metals are present www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...